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Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is selling the pricey Brooklyn brownstone he bought just last month — because The Post and other media outlets published his address.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesAnna Webber/Getty Images for The New YorkerThe Prospect-Lefferts Gardens home has been put on the market for $2.395 million — $300,000 more than Coates paid for it in April, according to city property records.
Coates, one of the country’s most prominent writers on race, said in a magazine article earlier this month that he couldn’t move into the home now because he would fear for his family’s safety.
“You can’t really be a black writer in this country, take certain positions and not think about your personal safety,” the “Between the World and Me” author wrote.
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